The Bay Air Center offers a suite of services – free of charge – to provide technical support to community members and organizations that have received CARB or EPA grants to learn about or conduct air quality monitoring. These services include:
Resource Library
Explore information on air quality, monitoring, data analysis and quality control and a range of other related topics. The library includes materials developed by the Bay Air Center, as well as links to additional resources developed by others.
Training
Learn about air quality through Bay Air Center trainings, on-site presentations, demonstrations, and video courses.
Sensor Verification System
The Sensor Verification System is a self-contained, portable, weather-resistant, and easy-to-operate instrument system that helps quantify the performance of sensors relative to high-quality instruments.
Hands-on Assistance and Support
Receive support from Bay Air Center staff on air monitoring projects, equipment selection and siting, sensor deployment, data collection, interpretation, quality control and more. Available services include email and phone support, on-site assistance, and longer-term assistance for community projects.
Software & Tools
Use Bay Air Center provided software and tools to access, process, analyze and make sense of the data you are interested in.
How We Work
The Bay Air Center strives to support the needs of community projects with flexible approaches to meeting community needs and project objectives. We begin with an initial conversation to identify what would be most helpful, and then match with available resources. For some efforts, having one conversation with a Bay Air Center staffer is needed; for others, a longer-term partnership involving several types of support is required.
Case Studies
Bay Air Center staff works closely with the community and to identify support needs and determine how to most effectively allocate resources across the requests we receive from CARB and EPA grantees.